WOMEN IN LIFTS.
MEN AND THEIR HATS. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, Jan. 20. The latest controversy here is on the subject of whether a man should remove his hat in a lift when ladies enter. Sydney convention is divided on the question, hut mostly clings to the idea that he should. Some women, when asked for an opinion, declared that for a man to remove his hat in a lift was ridiculous. They even said that as women had now established themselves on an equal footing with men there was no need for a male acquaintance to take his hat off to them in the street. Some people say that the hat-doffing habit in lifts is a temptation to pickpockets, and that when a man happens to be one of a crowd of 11 in a lift that is supposed to carry only eight, the best place for his hat, if he does not want to have it crushed, is on his head.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 11
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